How GOOD was Arbok ACTUALLY? - History of Arbok in Competitive Pokemon (Gens 1-7)
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- Arbok is today’s Pokemon for our competitive history series! Join False Swipe Gaming in this brief overview of Arbok in competitive Pokemon!
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Timestamps
Intro - 0:00
RBY/Gen 1 - 0:58
GSC/Gen 2 - 1:50
ADV/Gen 3 - 3:59
DPP/Gen 4 - 5:07
Gen 4 Little Cup - 6:14
BW/Gen 5 - 6:53
XY/Gen 6 - 8:44
SM/Gen 7 - 10:47
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Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth.
For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent. I just like examining popular tournament formats.
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Achievement unlocked: All gen 1 pokemon were featured in this channel.
Now we need some remakes, like gengar and Alakazam. Just for comparison, Chansey/Blissey video used tu be like 10 minutes, now it's more than a hour long
Really? Awesome
@@fabioalanmp yes they need to do that
still missing the LC and NFE mons, though idm not getting the NFEs
On to johto “how good was stantler actually”
Everyone: Finally, we finished all the Gen 1 pokemon!
FSG some weeks later: How GOOD was Kadabra ACTUALLY?
That will probably happen 😔
Tbf, Kadabra is BL in gen 3 and had some NU/PU roles in later generations
@@tonberry2670 Thecnically a NUBL mon and due to the absurd rules of Advance NU you're not allowed to use a not fully evolved mon in UU (Honestly I would make an exception to mons banned from NU, altough Chansey might be too much for the tier to handle).
My prediction is that if FSG makes kadabra, they will make after that vids about the preevolutions of some psychic types that were also really good, like Duosion
Well he always talked about fully evolver mons until recently that started to speak about LC, it wouldn't be surprised if starts talking about first evolved mons about LC.
It's been 4 years in the making, but we did it lads. Gen 1 is finally complete.
indeed
After 4 years in development, hopefully it was worth the wait
now time for every gen 1 LC 'mon that didn't get covered in its evolution's video
There still will be remakes needed for the early ones, but it still is an accomplishment.
Now we just need to cover the nfe and little cup mons
Person: “Let’s pronounce your name correctly”
Arbok: “Ok”
Person: “Ar”
Arbok: “Ar”
Person: “Bok”
Arbok: “Bok”
Person: “ARBOK!”
Arbok: “CHARBOK!”
I saw the title of the video and I was: SAAAHBOK
SHABOOKA, this is me after reading the title.
Arbok wants to be Charizard so badly. XD
SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOKAH
CHAAAAARABOKAA
Admit it guys. We all cried when Jessie and James released Arbok and Wheezing in the anime.
They were bumbling idiot villains(or anti villains if you wanna be specific), but one this is sure, they loved each other and loved their Pokémons
yez
Not me I just had something in my eyes I swear!
Why they have to do that 😥
@@armandogranado1955 Honestly? To promote new mons.
If covering Little Cup is really going to be a recurring thing in the future then the Ferrothorn Movie might be even longer than we expected
Fun fact: FERROSEED of all things was RU in bw
A lc mon In ru thats pretty impressive
Movie? No. The Ferrothorn Saga
@@sammcguire3798 ferrothorn cinematic universe
@@haiku_king the ferrothorn genre
Ferroseed is significantly better than Meganium. Let that sink in.
FSG at 6:05 “It wasn’t completely unviable”
Literally 6 seconds later: “Sadly arbok was completely unviable”
They write these scripts week by week, a few slipups like this happen :
I wish I had a meme to add this quote 😂😂
@@heartofthefluft8541 How about a variation of "Well, yes, but actually no?"
Unfortunately
Wut?
I wish they still did different belly patterns for it every once in a while.
Not as long as they are reusing the models (doesn't mean they can't change the textures, but still - GameFreak is lazy.)
At least this small fact got some love in pokemon adventures, that's how i first learned about it.
Arbivillion? 🦋
I wish they buffed it.
@@robertwilliams5665 I wish it got a Galarian Form that evolves and was allowed in Sword and Shield.
Poison Type Pokémon: exist
Gen 1: *Looks like you’re going to the shadow realm*
Victreebel: hold my leaves
Tentacruel:*laughs in Kraken*
Sad, but true ;_;
Gengar: You Dare Challenge Me Mortal?
Well, at least a poison type (Nidoking) has the honor of being the number one Pokemon to speedrun gen 1 completely by himself.
It’s hard for me to watch the episode where Jessie and James release Arbok and Weezing without crying
man I recently watched that episode and then this comment
Yeah I feel like they should buff arbok hard like atleast its counterpart sandslash was not as bad and got by since it got a stat or 2 actually above 100 and it even got by with no good ability and pretty bad movepool outside of rapid spin so I think arbok really needs a buff
The true pokemon lovers who are also loved by their pokemons despite all the bullying from Ash Gang.
@@axlr8deathpls294 Z and aaaaa
@@axlr8deathpls294 I feel like it should of gotten that other gen 3 snake evolution forgot its name
every fully evolved gen 1 pokemon done
...
and now Little cup
It could actually be interesting
It will happen to the onix and steelix remake.
Considering this one was a twofer for arbok and ekans, perhaps the Little Cup stories can be saved for the revisiting reviews, so the only ones which need their own episodes would be the ones that got revisited already.
Don't forget NFE, we are probably gonna get Kadabra...
h o w g o o d w a s m e t a p o d a c t u a l l y
0:47 yo seeing Arbok choking out a Charizard is wild asf
Gen 1 Wrap be like that.
That's the final gen 1 mon. This channel really has come a long way
In the sense that all Gen 1 fully evolved have been covered, there can still be remakes, LC, and NFE a la Haunter.
@@lordpyron3934 That would be useless cuz most of the NFE's aren't great at all
@@muff1nb0y46 charizard's review really needs a remake, it's nowhere near as good as they are now (granted, it's one of the first, but it could be better)
@@Luchux177 I agree with the old vids remake but man I don't want FSG to cover every single LC and NFE mons
so true
We're not done with Gen 1. We need a "How HARD was Metapod ACTUALLY" video
Not as hard as my life
harden than Onyx after Cloyster uses soak
"How ADORABLE was caterpie ACTUALLY?"
Answer: Yes
Not as hard as this Di-
@@FlamingZelda3
Diglett can't even learn harden, silly :P
Arbok was the first pokémon to do regional forms , in the first 4 gens its appearance changes depending on the region.
6*
Sad for an awesome looking Pokemon to be so useless :/
“Ha ha”
-Nelson Muntz
Story of my life in pokemon lmao
Arbok had about the same kind of viability as a fart in the wind, maybe even worse, lol
It was a gen 1 early poison type. You don't catch it to keep it around, you catch it to use it a bit at the start then box it when it evolves.
Same goes with seviper 💔
Ah yes, reminds me of the classic "Arbok evolves into Seviper!"
@Nick Cruz I used to think Luvdisc evolved into Alomola
Fair but i think seviper is worse
I also used to think Seviper was poison/dark
“Chaaaar-book!”
@@ScoutNess it should
Little cup is such a cool concept. Its cool to see how some pre evolve had a better competitive run then theirs fully evolved form
The concept comes from Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 in game tournaments. Fun fact, the regular default tournaments with level 100s is actually called Prime Cup
@@Bash70 Right now, I’m waiting for the Lanturn video when they go over how good Chinchou was in Little Cup (and the few times it was viable in a tier other than LC).
The fact they buffed it in sun and moon with 10 more attack but it still wasnt enough
They need to give my boy more hp smh
Alolan Muk: *exists*
FSG is not even mentioning these things lately, just like they missed info in Ambipom Video
@@anuragkat66 It looked even *more glaring* in the Electrode video. He didn't even bother with at least explaining how Aftermath takes off a flat 25% Max Health when it gets defeated. All 3 abilities got flatly ignored in explanations.
Or even so much as a *single* mention of Electrode having Soundproof. You'd think it might actually have some creative use for it, given how he used Mr. Mime to demonstrate how freakishly broken it can prove.
Even Static, it's more basic ability for a 30% Contact Paralyze, didn't get a mention.
I actually went out of the way to make a comment explaining them all where FSG said basically nothing.
@@stetsonherrick8090 he commented on some of those things. Watch the video again and you'll see he mentions aftermath in gen 5. The problem is that electrode was so useless that those things wouldn't make a difference. Soundproof is mostly gimmicky (Mr. Mime was hyped more because it also had baton pass, not because of the ability itself) and a lot of pokemon have static, so it is nothing to get excited about. The information about ambipom being UU in gen 7 for a time was indeed sadly missed, but I can't say the same for electrode.
Oh yeah, and most people who watch FSG already have plenty of knowledge about the games, including abilities and what they do, so it wasn't necessary to explain them.
FSG: we finished G1.
Me, an OG player: How GOOD was Missingno. ACTUALLY?
Honestly for real though. Since Missingno is catchable how good is it actually?
I don’t think it trades to other gens though so it’d be a short video...
@@yserareborn It's actually pretty terrible. Even if it was allowed in tournaments and didn't glitch matches, no defense = glass cannon.
And it's not even that strong. There are no "bird" type moves in the game so no same type bonus. It's attack won't one shot level 100 pokemon. It's just a novelty to use really.
Gamefreak, make Missingno an official pokemon.
Maybe next April
Missigno is just a Pokémon for ancient Pokémon lore
Only reason you'd get one is to teach it Fly and evolve it into Kangaskhan.
Always wanted Arbok to be of some use by having stat boost, regional variant, or mega.
When they did Megas for Gen 6, I was like "Please give us a Mega Arbok." Denied... when they did Regional Variants for Gens 7 and 8, I was keeping my fingers crossed for Alolan or Galarian Arbok. Denied. Arbok NEEDS something to even be considered competitively. Arbok is my favorite, unironically! *Gives Pikachu the boot and holds a Super Soaker attatched to a Water Park at Charizard*
@@tigerwarrior1787 What's the part of the comment in bold referencing?
Agreed. A buff in attack and defence would be great. Even if it's only 5 points in each, it would be better than nothing.
Technically they did buff Arbok's ATK from 85 to 95 in SM.
Uranium has a mega arbok, poison dark type with an intimidate for speed
At least it's a main character for the famous show 'Arbok Kai'
Surely you mean the show Arbok Iak
@@stpatrick0248 You mean Iak Arbok?
*Kai Arbok
@@AnimationisTHEfuture*Iak Arbok
Arbok is a sad case, it has a good movepool, a typing that got better over the years, great abilities but is ultimately held back by its awful stats, she is begging to a buff.
Reminder that in the Adventures manga, Koga fought Agatha's Arbok, who could change its hood pattern to give a variety of effects (Making it faster, stronger etc). Koga's solution to this? Have his Golbat BITE his arm and splash the blood all over Arbok's hood to nullify it. Hardcore
@person person The manga was pretty insane. I recall that Red had an Eevee that could evolve and de-evolve back into an Eevee over and over again at will, so it was basically Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon and Flareon at the same time. And speaking of Arbok, in the manga it gets sliced in half. And there's a chapter with Pokemon zombies!
@@cintronproductions9430 Ah the experimental Eevee made by Team Rocket, to try to make the ultimate Eevee.
The idea should sound familiar to long time fans.
Gamefreak should release an event arbok that knows Conversion.
@person person In the manga Arbok’s patterns had a variety of different effects, for example one could increase speed, another made it a lot stronger and a third made it immune to status effects, allowing it to easily adapt to different situations. That being said I have no idea why covering the pattern would stop anything
And with that, Gen 1 is finally done.
*yes*
No not yet we are waiting for the remakes now
Yes
We need to cover the Galarian forms of the legendary birds though
Except remakes, NFE and Little Cup
I die a little inside everytime i see "RIP VGC LOL"
same
Agreed. Smogon is for babies
@@MrC.1990 Yes, but VGC is for virgins anyways, so who cares
I jump for joy so I dont have to waste my time with gay VGC
@@HannibalKantter VGC doesn’t have people crying for bans
A little detail: The wrapper in NU was Dragonair, who has almost the exact same stats. Dragonair has agility to deny opposing paralysis though, as well as a more accurate thunder wave which is huge on wrap strategies, and a good special move to dent physical walls, specially the powerful water types of that tier.
and it is not weak to psychic
#genoneinanutshell
Being outclassed by an nfe mon is insane
Aw that little animation of Ekans slithering.
Honestly, Arbok like Ariados is such a cool looking pokemon. Give Arbok an additional 20HP and 5Spe to its bases and it might actually be somewhat usable. Hopefully it'll get a mega someday.
Fun fact: In the pokemon adventures manga, an arbok gets graphically chopped in half
But self cures itself somehow with Shed Skin :P
@@dreadalex They took advantage of that pattern thing, made it so the patterns had extra abilities, that one just so happened to have regen. Although that was pretty clever to attribute it to Shed Skin.
Sound of perseverance is such a good album
The manga was/is pretty violent and dark from what I've heard. Not only is there the Arbok thing, there's also a chapter with gruesome zombified Pokemon!
But it regrew its body not long after like an absolute badass.
1:17 and you are now imagining a shades-wearing dragonite singing the poke rap with victreebell making a feature
And now I'm imagining radio stations editing out Victreebell's verse and ruining the song.
Sounds like a PIMPNITE video
the rest of Gen 2 is next! I also believe that we should start covering some Gen 6 Pokemon as well while we're at it.
Hopefully Arbok can get an evolution or something! Arbok's so cool! I'd like a Fire/Poison regional variant for it, but even then that wouldn't help those stats too much... but a cool evolution would!
Arbok will always get one spot in my Team. I am doing this since Gen 1 and I will do it in every other Game it makes an appearance. I like that Pokémon.
Arbok has a special place in my heart for its performance during a HeartGold nuzlocke I did. Intimidate is just too good, man.
I have massive respect for Arbok's design!💜🐍👏
Achievement unlocked: All fully evolved Pokémon introduced in Gen 1 reviewed.
Now to complete Gen 2.
Yea. I think we had to start with: How GOOD was Granbull Actually???
Ursaring when, albeit mostly so we can hear about how amazing Paul's Ursaring was
Been waiting for how good was lanturn actually (could also cover some chinchou in there too)
@@goldenhydreigon4727 Although unfortunately, since the next video False Swipe Gaming posts is the first Sunday of May, maybe we'll do that next two weeks...
Arbok needs an evolution so bad, really disappointed he hasn’t gotten a new form or anything to help him out…
R.I.P. Diana Pérez, who voiced Jessie in Latin America
I’ve been here since the Shuckle video popped up in my recommended. So amazing to have come this far with the FSG team. Congrats on the milestone, Kellen and friends. Keep up the awesome work, and battle on!
Love that Little Cup is being occasionally featured now.
I was so sure that Ekans and Arbok would’ve gotten a Galarian form like Weezing...maybe a Royal looking Poison/Dragon typing...sigh what a sweet summer child I was...
Y e s
Snek draggo
Ekans was good in gen 5 , it did not dissappear it had a niche
Been watching you guys since before the charizard video. its been a wild ride and after all these years, every fully evolved gen 1 pokemon has been analyzed! Thank you FSG
All Arbok needs is a major base stat boost. It has incredible moves and a good ability. It could be such a cool Pokemon if it only bad better stats.
0:46
Bro, *Arbok straight up strangling GF's gross psuedo dragon mascot is as terrifying as it is gratifying*
“I don’t read the Pokémon manga, Pokémon get chopped in half in the manga!”
I see what you did 😄
Which one, alakazam's assistant?
There's always room for a Bob!
i've been loving the little cup coverage recently, keep it up ^-^
In the anime
It’s always like
Charrrr...Bak lol 😂
My favorite Pokemon still despite the viability. I really hope it gets the love it deserves some day! That shiny is too cool to waste!
I really enjoy how this channel went from barely talking about any pokemon that weren't OU or Uber back in 2018 to now even covering LC pokemon. It's nice to see some of the more overshadowed mons getting love.
I really hope you touching on Little Cup in these becomes a staple! Its interesting to learn more about the more forgotten tiers, and there's not really enough content in most of them for a full-fledged episode. Great vid as always, everyone!
I watched simce the first few videos youve ever uploaded. I stopped for a while, but now im back to watching your videos. Always loved these vids because they are so different and entertaining pokebattle history!
It’s kinda annoying because it has all the positives to become a decent Pokemon, decent typing for a niche, great moves and move pool, and amazing ability, it just has garbage stats to utilize what it has.
Imagine if this boy got a mega....
He should Just get an evolution
It's a great pokemon for a maingame team, but terrible competitively.
Gen 1 completed. It's been a fun ride FSG!
Also... WEEK 3 OF SHOWING APPRECIATION FOR LITTLE CUP WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
LOVE the LC coverage!!!
Didn'task for this video but so happy it exists now, thank you
I have no idea how long this series has had this, but I love the timestamps in the video timer to show which gen is being reviewed.
It's seen on more modern episodes, but oddly not all of them use it. Weird, huh?
That defense stat with intimidate is nice
Thanks for being such a great channel!
yayayay! gen 1 is over. congrats on all the videos!
And just like that we’re done with Kanto. Can’t wait for next week and calling it now it’ll be a gen 2
Hoping itll be the gen 2 early bird, Noctowl
Finally, now all we need is Seviper
0:39 that put a smile on my face :) its been a long journey but u guys did it. Congrats!
Still waiting for Arbok to get it's own regional variant in gen 9 following those of Muk and Weezing
Pretty interesting to cover LC from time to time
this is the way that gen 1 ends. not with a bang, but a whimper.
A whimper of "Guess I'm blasting off into Untiered again!"
Finally! It's about time that i have been waiting for Arbok! It is one of my favorite pokemon of all time!
I'm so glad you guys are focusing more on little cup
Everyone: Gen 1 coverage has been achieved!
Remakes: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
This channel is one the few youtube channels that delivers very high quality content and has been consistently providing it for a long time. But as we all know such channel's don't get the response they deserve or the subs but the subs they have are quality watchers and we all know quality over quantity keep going fsg you guys are awesome .
Loving the LC coverage recently.
WOOH You finally did my favorite Pokemon, YAY! :D
To celebrate this momentous occasion, how about a remake of “How Good was Charizard Actually?” It only seems fitting...
The Virgin Charizard vs The Chad Venusaur
@@goldenhydreigon4727 No joke, Venusaur is awesome. Shame GameFreak went ham in Gen 1 creating so many Grass types and making Psychic (one of my favorite types though...) broken.
Venusaur could've worked with more love. It's unfair Charizard gets two Megas and was a Galar Dex Mon while Venusaur (and Blastoise) had to wait until DLC for Sword and Shield to get a G-Max form
@@KahunaLagoona venusaur was is and always will be the best one competetively tho 😅
@@laxusstrauss5945 Means jack if it's not recognized as popular.
@@laxusstrauss5945 until mega evos enter the chat
Surprised there’s not been a new form of Arbok yet, BADLY needs it
It needs major stat increases. Having your best stat be 85 is pretty yikes.
@@nedrostram2360 I drew up a cute little rattle snake (it has a rattle toy as well) variant form for Ekans but I still haven't thought of anything for Arbok yet... I know it's slightly off topic, but slightly back on topic, Fairy/Ground Arbok would be nice I guess👀
@@mrsuperheatran2794 Well its attack is 95 now but your point still stands.
congratulations, your Arbok evolved into Nohtyp
Finally Arbok will always be my fav pokemon no matter wath thank you so much its been an awesome journey in gen 1 Im excited to se the next gens!
I heard the "That's All Folks!", a reference from the Pokemon rap which we found out Arbok was the final Pokemon mentioned in.
2:16- Kid Arbok: Here dad here the power of my earthquake.
Dad Steelix: Cute heres mine.
Arbok is one of those examples that, with every new generation, a lot of previous generation Pokémon just can't cut it like they did before.
At least Arbok's design is top notch.
One of my favorite pokemon for my birthday, thanks man
Yall at FS are amazing. The passion for pokemon yall have is so cool.
He is still one of my favorite Pokemon and I still and proud to say that he is on every team in every generation that he is allowed. It is sad to see the cold facts but I still wont throw him aside. Also, this is just me personally, but he represents a time when pokemon looked like real creatures and not just cutsie pets/dolls.
Jessie and James Arbok and weezing are missed hopefully they make an epic return better than ever
yo congrats on the Kanto Complete milestone!
nice vid on my bday, thanks!
I like that he’s been talking about little cup more recently
We finished Gen 1 boi
Now we need the Galar forms of the Legendary birds
So, you want a remake of the birds right?
Zapdos might reached a 1-hour video considered that Kanto Zapdos was so bulky on OU. Zapdos-Galar can't outclassed Zapdos, hence it dropped to UU once.
Well that's it! Every gen 1 Pokémon covered! Great job!
wooow damn. All Kanto pokemon done :D Nice Job False Swipe Gaming Team
Another great example of an early-gen pokemon that outside of it's notoriety from media has *_absolutely nothing going for it and was almost like created to be bad and weak and unappealing in every possible way_* - what Arbok lacks fundamentally is better stats, the snake pokemon could definitely get huge use out of an additional *_Obstagoon-style evolution_* , this way it could both get viability with higher stats from an evolved form and/or get use out of Eviolite as a mid-stage NFE and become more bulky
You can tell just how good a Pokémon is by the length of the video
Suggestion:
If a pokemon receives a stat buff once a new gen comes,you can display it whenever you show it next to its stats during the vids. For example in Arbok's case when gen7 come out - Atk:85+10.
I hope this is helpful!
Awesome video as always! I always liked Arbok! A higher Atk and Speed stat could make it at least a niche (?) choice-item user in my opinion. Its a Poison-type Pokemon with Intimidate , which is pretty interesting.
Dang, you really did cover all of gen1 FEP. Feels like only a few months ago since I subscribed.
Pls do how good was corsola and cursola actually
This is the last time we'll visit gen 1 🥺
We'll probably eventually get remake videos of some of the older gen 1 pokemon, like charizard or alakazam.
Ekans was my very first perfect Pokemon in PoGo and I just love Arbok so this Pokemon holds a special place in my heart. Plus Coil + Gunk Shot is pretty f*ckin' strong
Love the LC content
Everyone here: We did it boys. We completed all Pokémon’s of gen 1.
Missingno: Am I a joke to you?
Árbok in the game:
"Ok-kobra"
In the manga:
"Pls stop, edge is not the reason the Manga is good"
-50% of manga readers
Yes GODDAMMIT an old one!!! Keep em comin🤘🤘🤘
Congrats on completing Kanto, hope you can do the same for the rest of the generations coz I'm sticking around for a while